A rack-mounted server that has two slots for CPUs. Typically two quad-core or 6-core CPUs are used, providing a total of 8 to 12 processing cores per server. See four-socket server. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

Multi socket servers have been around since the dawn of enterprise computing. The market and technology has matured into 2-socket x86 and multi core highly integrated processors. In this piece, I hope ...

A rack-mounted server that has four slots for CPUs. Typically four 6-core or 8-core CPUs are used, providing a total of 24 to 32 processing cores per server. See two-socket server. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

Powered by Intel Xeon 6 P-Cores, the new modular platform targets AI, HPC, and in-memory workloads, marking Supermicro’s most critical launch since its recent governance setbacks. Supermicro has ...

It is funny to think that Advanced Micro Devices has been around almost as long as the IBM System/360 mainframe and that it has been around since the United States landed people on the moon. The ...

A socket is defined as the endpoint of a two-way communication between two processes running over a network. Inter-process communication can be achieved using sockets. After a connection between the ...